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It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. — Lewis Grizzard

Posted on March 19th, 2011

Rawson Brook Farm’s Chocolate Chevre Truffles

Below the Recipe

This Weekend Join me! Spring Tonic at the Lenox Library Project Native Film Festival in Great Barrington

More Recipes with Goat Cheese

Feeding the World without Destroying it

Susan Sellew of Rawson Brook Farm with her baby goats. (Photo from Berkshire Food Journal)

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Posted on March 1st, 2011

Warm Pudding

Local Food News Below

It’s Maple Month! Recipes Using Maple Syrup An Oral History of Girlhood and a New England Farm More about Maple Syrup

My niece Sadie, third generation pudding lover, who knows to keep blowing and eat it warm!  (See her savor it below.) [...]

Posted on January 30th, 2011

Connie’s Apple Coffee Cake

Good Food News

Local Authors Celebrate I Must Have Bobo! with Connie’s Apple Coffee Cake National Kudos to Local Artisanal Baker USDA Launches New Biobased Product Label (See below for these stories)

(Going, going, almost gone. One classic coffee cake, nutty and moist with apples.) [...]

Posted on December 21st, 2010

Rich 'n Easy Black and White Truffles

Thinking of a locavore treat that you can make now for the holidays?

(Full and festive winter locavore meal below)

These truffles were so popular last year that I’m blogging them again. They’re extraordinary in their simplicity — fresh local cream mingles with the [...]

Posted on November 2nd, 2010

Sweet Pumpkin Soup with Apples and Honey (and a touch of Terra Madre)

No, the picture below isn’t a pumpkin dessert. It’s Vandana Shiva, eco-feminist, author of the remarkable Stolen Harvest, champion of the small farmer and opponent of corporate owned seeds. I snapped this before she spoke magnificently at Slow Food’s Terra Madre, where I was a US delegate in Torino, Italy last week. More about [...]

Posted on July 14th, 2010

Tortilla Blintzes with Summer Fruit

These crisp tortillas filled with seasonal fruit and ricotta, topped with berry sauce make a romantic brunch or surprising dessert wrap. I used local peaches and blueberries here, but feel free to fool with fruit any local combination. (If you can find local ricotta  let me know where please!)

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Posted on July 6th, 2010

Summer Pudding with the Best of the Berries

It’s nine million degrees inside and out, and I’m awash in berries from my neighbor, Jim, who set us loose on his raspberry patch. Then there’s the black cup raspberry bush next to our bulkhead that’s laden with more berries, which I can’t leave to the birds.

So oodles of berries [...]

Posted on June 23rd, 2010

The Best Strawberry Shortcake

After my our annual strawberry picking at Ioka Valley Farm, our favorite feast is strawberry shortcake — warm, dense biscuits topped with juicy ripe berries and fresh whipped local cream from High Lawn Farm.  I sometimes plan ahead, making biscuits before we pick, then storing them, uncooked, in the freezer on [...]

Posted on June 15th, 2010

Strawberries and a Talk about Salads

Three websites, each with a tasty…

A short talk on about Salads The first is Caroline Alexander’s Berkshire Food Journal, which I’ve featured before for its superb audio segments and accompanying slides about regional farmers. Today, I’m steering you to a short talk I did on salads, which I hope you’ll find useful now [...]

Posted on May 4th, 2010

Rhubarb Parfait with Minted Yogurt

Three local ingredients — rhubarb, yogurt and mint — one simple spring lunch.

The longer I cook with fresh local ingredients the less I want to fuss with them. Why mess with a good thing?  But you can certainly play with other seasonings, such as lemon or orange zest, a pinch of allspice [...]